Truman to "Support, Defend
Rooseveltian Ideals With All
My Heart," He Tells World
Washington, April 16. (U.R)
President Truman today solemn
ly reaffirmed the "unconditional
surrender" terms for ending the
war, and gave our enemies no
tice that America's great team of
military commanders will be
kept on the Job of beating them
into absolute submission.
Standing humbly . before the
congress in which he had served,
the new president also pledged
himself to carry on Franklin
Roosevelt's program for endur
ing world peace and "our efforts
to improve the lot of the com'
mon people."
Dashes Easy Peace Hop
Addressing a somber joint ses
sion of the house and senate only
one day after he watched the
body of his predecessor being
laid to rest in the earth of Hyde
Park, Mr. Truman promised to
support and defend Mr. Roose
velts' ideals "with all my
strength and with all my heart
Woven through his speech was a
plea for aid from all Americans
In carrying out that pledge.
But most of all, at this mo
ment he wanted to dash any
idea the axis leaders may have
had that the change in adminls-
Washington, April 16 (U.R)
President Harry S. Truman,
as if forgetting that he had
become chief executive, for
got one important formality
as he stepped forward today
to address congress.
He started to speak, getting
as far as "Mr. Speaker . . . "
when Speaker Sam Rayburn
whispered to him:
"Just a moment let m
present you, will you, Harry?"
Then Speaker Rayburn in
troduced the president of the
United States. Mr. Truman
started again.
tration might bring an oppor
tunity for a negotiated peace.
He aimed these words at
Tokyo and Berlin:
"Our demand has been, and It
remains unconditional surren
der!" (He emphasized the word
"remains.")
"Nothing shall shake our de
termination to punish the war
criminals even though we must
pursue them to the ends of the
earth.".
Command Unchanged
Then he ran down the list of
our too commanders who have
brought the war within sight of
victory. And he said: ""
"I want the entire world to
know that this direction must
i and will remain unchanged
and unhampered!"
And then he promised to carry
forward with the world organi
zation plan for lasting peace.
"We will' face the problems of
peace with the same courage
that we have faced ana masterea
the problems of war," he said.
"In the memory of those who
have made the supreme sacrifice
in the memory of our fallen
president we shall not fail!"
He told his listeners that the
world's great nations must work
together to build and maintain
peace.
"We must not only have hope
but we must have faith enough
to work with other peace-loving
nations to maintain the peace,''
he said.
Cooperation Essential
"Nothing is more essential to
the future peace of the world
than continued cooperation of
the nations which had to muster
the force necessary to defeat the
conspiracy of the fascist powers
to dominate the world.
"While these great states have
a special responsibility to en
force the peace, their responsi
bility is based upon the obliga
tions resting upon all states,
large and small, not to use force
In international relations except
In the defense of law. The re
sponsibility of the great states
is to serve ahd not dominate the
peoples of the world."
He promised Americans that
"we shall never cease our strug
gle to preserve and maintain our
American way of life," and said.
"Let me assure the forward
. looking people of America that
there will be no relaxation in
our efforts to improve the lot
of the common people.".
Pleading for unity, he said the
"entire world is looking to
America for enlightened leader
ship to peace and progress."
"Such a leadership requires
vision, courage and tolerance,"
he said. "It can be provided only
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Toggery Bill Isaacs suffering
the loss of a jug when the door
of his car opened unexpectedly
as he drove along Crater Lake
highway.
Hellen Razum enjoying
motorcycle ride and half a mind
to buy one of the vehicles for
herself.
A Mail Tribune staffer trying
to locate a man with a Scotcn
name having two steam boilers
to sell.
by a united nation deeply devot
ed to the highest ideals. .
CalU On All To Aid
'1 call upon all Americans to
help me keep our nation uiv'ed
in defense of these ideals which
have been so eloquently pro
claimed by Franklin Roosevelt.
He said America "must assist
suffering humanity back along
the path of peaceful progress,'
and that to do so "will require
time and tolerance.
"We shall also," he added
"need an abiding faith In the
people,' the- kind of faith and
courage which Franklin Delano
Roosevelt always had!
Mr. Truman, who had been at
work at the White House at 8:15
a.m., arrived at the capitol at
12:28 p.m. He went to Speaker
Sam Rayburn's office where
many high government officials
and members of congress await
ed him. He talked with them be
fore going into the house cham
ber to deliver his speech.
Cabinet members already
present when Mr.- Truman en
tered were Attorney General
Francis Biddle, Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimsbn, Secretary of
Navy James V. Forrestal, Secre
tary of Commerce Henry A. Wal
lace and Secretary of Agricul
ture Claude Wickard.
Also arriving at the speaker's
office just prior to the presi
dent's entrance were British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
and British Ambassador Lord
Halifax. Mr. Truman had con
ferred with them earlier at the
White House. .
Appeal To All
. In an humble mood, the be
spectacled, small-statured new
head of the American govern
ment appealed "to every Ameri
can, regardless of party, race
creed or color, to support our
efforts to build a strong and
lasting united nations organiza
tion." '
- He made a forthright appeal
to congress, of which he had
been a member, for help and co
operation. "You, the members of con
gress, surely know how I feel,"
he said to the joint session.
"Only with your help can I hope
to complete one of the greatest
tasks ever assigned to a public
servant.
"With Divine guidance and
your help, we will find the new
passage to a far better world, a
kindly and friendly world, with
Just and lasting peace.'
Repeatedly he spoke of the
necessity of avoiding a flimsy
peace which would lead to
future conflict.
"To destroy greedy tyrants
with plans of world domination,
we cannot continue in successive
generations to sacrifice our fin
est youth. In the name of hu
man decency and civilization,
a more rational method deciding
national differences must and
will be found."
Must Aid Humanity
"America," he said, "must as
sist suffering humanity back
along the path of peaceful pro
gress. This will require time and
tolerance. We shall need also an
abiding faith In the people, the
kind of faith and courage which
Franklin Delano Roosevelt al
ways had."
The gravity of his new role In
the future of the world was re
fleeted in the simple way Mr.
Truman told the congress that
"at this moment, I have in my
heart a prayer. As I assume my
heavy duties, I humbly pray to
Almighty God, in the words of
Solomon:
"Give, therefore, Thy servant
an understanding heart to judge
Thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad. for win.
Is able to Judge this Thy so great
people?-
And then the new president
concluded his first annearance
as chief executive in the halls of
congress by saying:
I ask only to be a flood and
faithful servant of my Lord and
my people."
At the outset of his remarks
to congress, Mr. Truman said
that he would have preferred to
have observed "reverent silence'
in this, the day after the burial
of Mr. Roosevelt, but "in this
decisive, hour our silence might
De misunaerslood and mlchi
give comfort to our enemies.'
Tribute To F.D.R.
He paid a grave tribute to the
late president, saying "the world
knows it has lost a heroic cham
pion of justice and freedom."
PFC. CHARLES Ft. TURNER
KILLED ON WEST FRONT
Word was received here today
of the death of Pfc. Charles R
Turner, killed In action in Ger
many January IS last He had
been overseas since November
1944.
He Is survived by his widow,
the former Miss Norma Mitchell,
304 North Ivy street, this city,
an Infant daughter, and other
relatives. - '
Paraguay is divided Into two
sections, the Oriental, east of the
Paraguay river, and the Occi
dental, west of it.
Medford
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Fortieth Year
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Roosevelt's Body Rests in
Hudson River
Hyde Park, N. Y., April 16.
(U.R) The body of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt rested today
in the soil of a sunny rose garden
on the family estate overlooking
the Hudson river.
A few minutes before 10
o'clock yesterday morning, a
lone gun in a nearby field stilled
those waiting in the hedge-
locked garden with the first
round of a 21-gun presidential
salute. Forty-seven minutes later
the simple services for the 31st
president of the United States
were over.
Procession Moves
As the echo of the gun faded,
GARAGE LOST IN
TRIPP ST. BLAZE
Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed one garage and dam
aged another on Tripp street this
morning. The fire department
reports that a garage owned by
Mrs. Laura Lawrence and used
by L. W. Dickson, 112 Cottage
street, was destroyed along with
five motors and furniture in the
building owned by Mr. Dickson.
Flames from the garage caught
the roof of a garage owned by
Miss Neva Samuels, 123 Tripp
street, and partially destroyed
the roof, firemen said.
- Firemen were called to the
Comer Inn on South Central
avenue yesterday morning to
extinguish a fire from an oil
stove. Amount of damage was
not reported.
A garage In the Griffin creek
district was completely de
stroyed by fire about 9:30 a. m
Sunday. The property is occu
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Holman, who report none of the
other buildings were damaged
by the blaze. Defective wiring
was believed to be the in use. it
was said.
Baseball Brothers
Give Up Hold-Out
St. Louis, April 18. (U.R)
Baseball's stellar brother act,
Pitcher Morton Cooper and his
battery mate. Walker, today an
nounced that they would join
the Cardinal club on schedule
in Chicago tomorrow.
Hitler Calls on Troops to Drown
Assaulting Reds in Sea of Blood
London, April 18 (U.R)
Adolf Hitler said today the red
army had launched Its last mass
offensive and called on his
troops to drown the assault on
Berlin in "a sea of blood" and
turn the tide of war 'at the
very moment when destiny has
removed from this earth the
greatest war criminal of all
times.
Hitler Issued a special order
of the day to the troops of the
eastern front saying that the red
army had launched a mass of
fensive. Ha promised that this offen
sive and the attack In the west
would be beaten off if his troops
stood firm. He warned them to
obey no order to retreat, what
ever the rank of the officer giv
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and Red Aerial Vanguards
Estate Garden
the strains of "Hail to the Chief
played by the West Point cadet
band came through the nearby
woods. The funeral procession
moved up the hillside, paced by
the muffled drums.
Inside the garden the late
presidents' aged aunt, Mrs.
James R. Roosevelt, waited In a
chair beside the graveside. At
her side was Fala, the president 6
dog.
Planes flew across the proces
sion, low on a straight course.
At 10:36 a.m. the caisson was
drawn into position. Eight enlist
ed men from the armed forces
there were no honorary pall-
bearers bore the casket to the
grave. -.- . - .
Behind the 76-year-old' Rev
W. George Anthony, stood Mrs
Roosevelt with a son, Brig. Gen.
Elliott Roosevelt, on one side,
and her daughter, Mrs. Anna
Boettigcr, on the other.
Family In Group
Behind them stood her four
daughters-in-law and her son-in-law,
Col. John Boettiger.
Behind them was another fam
ily the nation's official family,
President Harry S. Truman, his
assistants and heads of the
armed forces.
Dr. Anthony, wearing the
black cassock, white surplice
and black skull cap of the Epis
copal church, began the service.
."All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me," he intoned,
beginning the Episcopal commit
tal. At 10:45 the traditional three
volleys were fired over the
grave. A minute later, taps
sounded softly through the gar
den. Widow Leaves
The crowd turned away. Mrs
Roosevelt went to the side of the
elderly aunt, and a few minutes
later walked, chin firm, head
erect, from the garden.
After the crowds had depart
ed, Mrs. Roosevelt returned
She stood for several minutes in
silence, looking at her husbands'
grave. She Joined her family for
the lonely trip back to Washing
ton. Radio Highlights
Washington, April 18. (U.R)
President Truman will make a
brief radio address to the Ameri
can armed forces tomorrow at 7
p.m PWT.
ing it, unless the officer person
ally was known to them.
He Instructed his troops to
shoot any officer whose orders
they suspected and warned
them of German officers who
sought to ..ave their skins by
aiding the Russians, possibly in
German uniforms.
"Berlin remains German,"
Hitler said. "Vienna will once
more become German and Eu
rope shall never become Rus
sian." Hitler declared that any Ger
man soldier who did not fulfill
his duty was a traitor.
"The regiment or division
which relinquishes Its post,"
said the order, "will be shamed
by the women and children who
are braving the bombing terror."
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945
New York state troopers
guard the last resting place of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. His
grave (above) is banked high
with flowers after ' funeral
rites of sad splendor in the
garden of his Hyde Park, N.Y.,
home. President Harry S. Tru
man, his wife, and daughter,
Margaret, (upper right) pay
their final tribute. Strong,
even In sorrow, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt (lower right) and
her daughter, Mrs. Anna Boet
tiger, stand before the grave.
(Acme telephotos).
HEAPED ON TOKYO
BY B-29
. By United Press
Another huge American fleet
heaped new destruction on
Tokyo today while fires still
raged in a large area devastated
by Saturday's B-29 attack on
the capital.
Between 300 and 400 Super
fortresses blasted war plants in
southeast Tokyo and at Kawa
saki, an industrial mihiirh itntith.
west of the capital. Tokyo broad
casts saia tires raged out of con
trol lor seven and a half hours.
Huge Area Burned
The 21st bomber command
disclosed that Saturday's raid
burned out 10 square miles,
twice as large as the specified
target oi five square miles.
The destruction included seven
factories whirh enntrthniuH in
war making Industries, includ
ing the Itabashe arsenal. Chem
ical Dlants. DOWdrr fnrtnrisa inH
shell plants were damaged.
rires still were burning when
bombers- arrived early today "to
continue the strategic destruc
tion of Japanese industries,"
Radio Tokyo said approxi
mately 100 carrier-based planes
and a small number of Liber
ators bombed and strafed south
ern Kyushu, southernmost of
Japan's home Islands. It was the
first Liberator strike
against Japan proper.
Yanks Near Bagulo
In the Phlllnnltif.. A morlpnn
trOODS Closed in InHav nn Ra,.
ulo, last major Luzon city held
by the Japanese. One of the
converging columns was report
ed only three miles from the
city.
In southern Luzon other
American troops seized Gagra
ray Island off the east coast of
Albay gulf.
On Okinawa American troops
beat off Janancsn rnnntpr-nt.
tacks, and, according to Tokyo,
prepared for a full-scale offen
sive against Naha tha
at the southern end of the island.
The drive had been stalled for
nearly a week by stubborn Jap.
anese defense lines four miles
north of Naha.
MOTORCYCLISTS HURT-
ON BLACKWELL HILL
Two mntnrrvrlA rlH.
Stockton, Cal., who were bound
for Tacoma, were Injured about
noon yesterday when their rw1
struck a culvert wall on Black-
well Hill, about eight miles
north of here. Hnrrv Mnh.ff.
suffered a fractured arm and
tne lower part of hit face was
mashed. Ward Simpson suffered
a double compound fracture of
the left knee. They were
brought to Sacred Heart hosv.tal
in the Conger-Morris ambulance.
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Washington, April 16. U.R)
President Truman conferred for
20 minutes today with British
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
who delivered several verbal
messages from Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. ,
Also present were Secretary
of State Edward R. Stettlnius,
Jr., and British Ambassador
Lord Halifax. Stettinnius met
with Mr. Truman earlier short
ly after the president arrived In
the executive office at the early
hour of 8:19 a.m. then returned
to Join in the conference with
Eden and the ambassador.
Eden, who flew from England
to attend the late President
Roosevelt's funeral, told report
ers as he left Mr. Truman's of
fice: "I was very pleased to have
the privilege of calling on the
president and very grateful that
he found time to see me on this
day when he has his first import
ant speech to deliver."
Private Don Cox
Reported Wounded
Pvt. Don W. Cox, ton of Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Cox of Eagle
Point, was wounded recently
while fighting In Germany, his
parents stated Saturday.
Today's casualty release of
the office of war Information
states that Capt. George V. Gil
lette, nephew of Mrs. Anna C
Sanford, 900 Oak street, Ash
land, has been wounded while
serving In the European theater.
Rain Washes Out
Season's Opener
Washington, April 16 U.R
The Washington Senators today
called off their scheduled base
ball game with the New York
Yankees, supposed to have been
the seasons' opener, because of
rain-
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London, April 16. (U.R) The
roster of big name Germans In
allied hands today began read
ing like a who's who of the im
perial rcich and included a
mounting array of topflight
nazis.
Now on - the roll were Em
press Hcrmlne, widow of Kaiser
Wllhclm of World War I notor
iety; Marshal August von Mack-
eascn, 95-year-old German army
commandor In that war: Prince
August Wilhelm of Prussia, son
of the kaiser; and Dr. Mannfred
Zapp, chief nazl propagandist In
the United States from 1936 to
1941.
They joined a company In
cluding, Franz von Papen, ace
diplomat and troubleshooter of
the nazi regime. Responsible
sources here said his capture
would prevent him from
plotting a revival of German
strength for future wars, but
would have no effect on this
one.
Von Mackensen was taken In
a farmhouse where he was hid
ing, field reports said. He was
clad in a faded uniform of first
world war vintage. He went to
that area In February, leaving
Stettin when it was threatened
by tha Russians.
MRS. TRUMAN SLATES
FIRST PRESS CONFAB
Washington, April 16. (U.R)
The White House announced to
day that Mrs. Harry S. Truman
will hold her first press confer
ence at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the
Blair house.
Patterned after Mrs. Roose
velt's meetings with the press,
the conference will be restricted
to women reporters.
Fort Bragg, Calif., April 16.
(U.R) A red-haired human head
and two hands were found in a
suitcase full of clothing In the
woods near Fort Bragg, the
Mendocino county sheriffs' of
flea reported today.
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PRESAGES EARLYS
Airmen Team Up to Work
Over German Lines East
of Elbe 9th In Hot Fight
London, April IB. (U.R)
The red army attacked on a
110-mlle front east of Berlin
today in a general offensive
to capture the devastated nasi
capital and link up with allied
armies in the west.
In the first few hours of
the long-expected assault, the
nasls conceded, the Russians
penetrated the last-ditch nail
defense line between Kuestria
and Frankfurt due east of Ber
lin and seised a new bridge
head across the Oder midway
between the capital and Stet
tin. The soviet high command
did not confirm the offensive
immediately, but the Germans
usually flist to announce
such major soviet drives left
no doubt that the supreme
push from the east had begun.
Paris, 'April 16 U.R) Aerial
vanguards of the American and
Russian armies made their first
tactical contact above the Leipzig-Dresden
corridor today, bare,
ly 40 miles ahead of two great
United States tank armies plow
ing through the shattered de
fenses of central Germany.
The aerial "contact" between
the converging armies was made
by American and soviet fighter
bombers ordered out to work
over the German lines east of
the elbe in the area north of
Dresden target of American 1st
and 3d army ground troops.
- Team- Up lo Strafe '
Tha American and Russian
fliers, presumably by pre-arranged
plan, teamed up immediately
to bomb and strafe nazi ground
positions throughout the corri
dor. Word of the dramatic aerial
liaison, which appeared to pres
age an early Juncture between
the allied ground forces, came
as the American 1st and 3d
armies struck ..through the cen
ter of the nazl front with prob
ably the greatest armored host
In history.
Simultaneously, tha 1st army
wheeled strong tank and Infan
try formations northward to Join
with the U. S. 9th army in the
pay-off battle for Berlin.
91h In Furious Fight
The 9th army Itself was locked
In a furious battle to hold end
extend its one remaining bridge
head across the Elbe river be
yond Barby, 19 miles southeast
of Magdeburg and 84 miles
southwest of Berlin. Elements of
three crack German divisions
counterattacked the bridgehead
savagely, but without effect
this morning.
Units of the 1st and 9th armies
linked up along the Elbe about
19 miles south of Barby, trap
ping thousands of bypassed Ger
mans in the Harz mountains be
hind them. .
Far to the west, the Ruhr
pocket all but vanished with the
surrender of the German corps
commander there, adding tens of
thousands of prisoners to the
218.000 captives taken by the
U. S. 1st, 3d and 9th armies in
the past three days.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton'a
Sd army troops were reported
battling Into Chemnitz on the
road to Dresden and on their
southern wing swung up to and
perhaps across the Czechoslovak
border.
In Power Drive
On Patton'a right flank, the
American 7th army uncorked a
power drive across Bavaria that
rolled to within six miles of
Nuernberg and brought that nazl
shrine city under siege from the
northeast, north and west.
British 2d army troops to the
north were reported unofficially
within 19 mile of Hamburg,
while the Canadian 1st army to
the west rammed through to tha
North sea coast on a broad front,
capturing Groningen and bring
ing the great naval base at Em
den within direct artillery range.
But the big breakthrough ap
peared to have begun on th
U. S. 1st and 3d army fronts,
where the Russian and Amer
ican lines now were 70-odd milea
apart
Only on tha front before Ber
lin were the nazl line holding,
and the new 1st army thrust
threatened to break that resist
ance In short order.
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